Racing Fire Safety (suits, gloves, suppression)

Fire safety is the one part of a race car you buy hoping never to test. This page pulls together 24 in-stock products from RaceQuip, Allstar Performance, Lifeline Fire, Bell, Impact, K1 RaceGear, Zamp, G-FORCE Racing Gear, Simpson, Sparco and Safecraft, from $29.95 to $2,299.95: 9 driving suits, 6 pairs of driving gloves, 5 pairs of driving shoes and 4 plumbed fire suppression systems. Every suit, glove and shoe here states an SFI rating in its own listing - suits under SFI 3.2A, gloves and shoes under SFI 3.3 - and a rating is claimed for a suppression system only where its listing states one. Every order over $200 ships free.

OUR FIRE SAFETY PICKS

Product	Rating (as stated in the product listing)	Spec (from the product listing)	Price	Why it is here
Gloves Single Layer Small Black SFI	SFI 3.3/1 (per listing description)	351 Series, single layer, Nomex and suede, Small	$29.95	The floor of this page: RaceQuip’s single-layer glove is the cheapest SFI-rated hand protection we stock - the rating starter classes actually name, in a $29.95 glove.
Allstar Performance Driving Suit SFI 3.2A/1 S/L Blue Large - ALL931024	SFI 3.2A/1 (per listing)	1-piece, single layer, fire retardant cotton, Blue, Large	$129.99	The suit value pick: a complete single-layer 3.2A/1 suit for the price of a jacket alone elsewhere - the entry rung of the suit ladder, and honestly labelled as exactly that.
Fire Supression Club System Zero 2000 2.25kg	No SFI/FIA rating stated in the listing	Zero 2000 club system, 2.25 kg bottle (as titled)	$295.99	The suppression starter pick: Lifeline’s club-level plumbed system - a real installed system with a 2.25 kg bottle, priced below every other complete system on this page.
Suit ADV-TX Grey/Orange X-Large SFI 3.2A/5	SFI 3.2A/5 (per listing)	ADV-TX Series, 1-piece, multi-layer, aramid, Grey / Orange, X-Large	$999.95	The premium /5 pick: Bell’s ADV-TX pairs the multi-layer 3.2A/5 rating most road-race and faster drag classes ask for with an aramid build.
Suit TF20 1pc Large Black SFI 3.2A/20	SFI 3.2A/20 (per title)	TF20, 1-piece, Large, Black; the listing states no further spec	$2,299.95	The top pick: Impact’s TF20 is this page’s drag-racing ceiling - a 3.2A/20 suit, the rating written for fuel classes and blown combinations. The rest of the page is priced against it.

READ THE NUMBER AFTER THE SLASH FIRST

An SFI suit rating is two numbers doing two jobs. 3.2A is the spec itself - SFI Specification 3.2A, the driving-suit standard - and gloves and shoes are certified under the companion spec, 3.3. The number after the slash is the protection level, and it maps to a Thermal Protective Performance (TPP) score in the spec: the higher the TPP, the longer the garment holds back heat before a second-degree burn. Per the SFI 3.2A spec, 3.2A/1 rates TPP 6 (about 3 seconds of exposure protection), 3.2A/5 rates TPP 19 (about 10 seconds), and 3.2A/20 rates TPP 80 (about 40 seconds). That is why the ladder on this page runs from a $129.99 single-layer Allstar suit at /1 to the /20 suits at the top: you are not paying for a logo, you are paying for seconds. Which rung you need is set by your sanctioning body and your fuel, not by preference - slower gasoline classes commonly name /1 or /5, while blown, nitromethane and other high-risk drag combinations are where /15 and /20 suits live. Two buying rules follow. First, layers are how TPP is usually reached, not the rating itself - a single-layer suit and a multi-layer suit can both be legal or both be wrong for your class depending on the slash number, so shop the number, then the construction (the listings here state single, double, triple or multi-layer per product). Second, fire-retardant underwear is part of the system, not an accessory: sanctioning bodies credit it alongside the suit, and the wider Safety Clothing range below carries the tops, bottoms, socks and head socks that complete the layer stack. Questions before you order? Call 213-549-4279 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm PT) and we will read the listing with you.

GLOVES AND SHOES: SAME LADDER, SPEC 3.3

Hands and feet get the same treatment under SFI 3.3, with the same /1, /5 and /20 protection levels. The gloves here run from RaceQuip’s single-layer 3.3/1 at $29.95 through double-layer 3.3/5 sets from Allstar, Zamp and K1 to two Simpson extremes: the Magnata, whose listing states SFI 3.5/5 and FIA Approved, double layer, and the Holeshot-22 drag glove at 3.3/20 - the hand protection that matches a /20 suit. The shoes follow the same spread: Zamp’s ZR-30 and Allstar’s standard and Pro Series shoes are all 3.3/5 as listed, G-FORCE’s G35 is 3.3/5, and Sparco’s high-top drag shoe closes the page at 3.3/20. Match the glove and shoe level to the suit level your rulebook sets - a /20 suit over /1 gloves is a system with a hole in it - and note that each listing here is one size or one size range: check the exact size in the product title before ordering, because the same model in the next size up is a separate listing in the wider ranges below.

SUPPRESSION: PLUMBED SYSTEMS, HONESTLY LABELLED

The four systems here are plumbed installations - a charged bottle, lines and nozzles covering the cockpit and engine bay, discharged by pull cable or automatically - not handheld extinguishers. There is no universal bottle-size rule we can print honestly: the capacity and agent your car needs come from your rulebook’s table for your class and fuel, so this page sells the systems by what their listings actually state. Lifeline’s Zero 2000 club system ($295.99) is the 2.25 kg entry point and its listing states no SFI or FIA rating. Sparco’s 4.25 system ($499.00) is listed as mechanical, AFFF agent, FIA Approved, with controller, fittings and hose. Lifeline’s Zero 360 10 lb mechanical system ($779.99) carries SFI in its title. Safecraft’s LM system ($1,305.99) is listed with a Fluoro FS agent, a 10 lb bottle, automatic and manual thermal activation, and hoses, fittings and mount included - and states no SFI or FIA rating. However a system is rated, a pressure gauge in the green proves nothing by itself: the agent and service requirements are the manufacturer’s, so budget for the maker’s service schedule, and if a listing anywhere does not state a rating your rulebook names, treat it as not stated, not as implied.

AN HONEST NOTE ON WHAT IS NOT ON THIS PAGE

The wider ranges linked below carry gear this page deliberately leaves out. Gloves and suits whose listings state no SFI rating - including the Allstar Non-SFI glove line, which is a pit and mechanic glove, not a driving glove - are excluded, because gear that looks like fire gear is not fire gear at tech. Handheld extinguishers, mounts, pull cables, tubing and other system components are sold in the wider ranges rather than padded into this list of complete systems. And the garments that complete the protection stack - fire-retardant underwear, socks and head socks - live in Safety Clothing: they matter, but they are a layer decision, not a substitute for a rated suit. If your rulebook names an FIA standard instead of SFI for a garment, shop by the exact standard stated in the listing - the Simpson Magnata glove above is the one product here whose listing states an FIA approval alongside its SFI rating.

QUESTIONS RACERS ASK US

What does SFI 3.2A/5 actually mean? 3.2A is the SFI driving-suit specification; /5 is its protection level, rated TPP 19 in the spec - about 10 seconds of heat exposure protection, against about 3 seconds for a /1 suit (TPP 6). Your sanctioning body’s rulebook names the level your class and fuel require; the slash number on the listing is the number tech reads.

Is a single-layer /1 suit enough? For the classes whose rulebooks name 3.2A/1, yes - that is exactly the rung it is built and priced for. For anything faster, blown or fuel-burning, the same rulebooks step the requirement up, usually to /5 and beyond. Read your class rule first; do not buy down a ladder your tech inspector will climb for you.

Do my gloves and shoes need the same rating as my suit? They are certified under their own spec (SFI 3.3 for gloves and shoes, 3.2A for suits), but the protection levels are meant to work as a set - hands and feet are usually closest to the fire. Match the / level across the three where your rulebook is silent, and never let the gloves be the weak layer.

How do I know what size suppression system my car needs? From your sanctioning body’s capacity table for your class and fuel - there is no honest universal answer, and any seller who gives you one without asking your class is guessing. Once the rulebook sets the size, the choice here is actuation and agent as stated per listing: manual pull cable versus automatic thermal activation, and the agent the manufacturer fills it with.

Shopping the wider ranges? Browse the full Safety Clothing, Driving Suits and Fire Suppression Systems collections, read our guides on the News & Builds blog, or see the page that came before this one: Racing Seats, Harnesses & Restraints (SFI).

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